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Movies about HIV and AIDS

As the first TV movie to discuss the subject of AIDS, An Early Frost is about a young lawyer who couldn’t bring himself to tell his prejudiced parents he was gay, but must now tell them he has AIDS as his health deteriorates.

In Go Toward the Light, a hemophilic child gets AIDS from his medication and his young parents face the hard reality.

Longtime Companion chronicles the emergence and spread of AIDS through the lives of a small circle of guy friends and was one of the first films to put a face to the AIDS epidemic.

Philadelphia is a heart-wrenching tale about a man with AIDS who hires a homophobic lawyer as his only advocate to fight back against a conservative law firm that wrongfully fired him.

And the Band Played On tells of the first years of the AIDS epidemic in America, focusing on the struggles of an immunologist and two virologists.

Jeffrey is a gay man who swears off sex for fear of AIDS, only to meet the love of his life – a handsome, HIV-positive man. Jeffrey is faced with anxiety over the disease and fear of commitment, which stand in the way of his happiness with the man he desperately wants to be with.

Based on a true story, A Mother’s Prayer shows the battle of a frightened HIV-positive mother who must make arrangements for the care of her eight-year-old son.

It’s My Partyis a dramatic story of a man who is diagnosed with HIVand Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, but he is determined to not let his life be taken by disease. He has a farewell party then voluntarily ends his life before his loved ones become unrecognizable to him and he to them.

This screen adaption of an award-winning play depicts eight friends who spend three summer weekends together at a cabin exploring their views of love, sex, friendship, life, and death. Buzz stubbornly refuses to talk about his AIDS and is the polar opposite of his warm-hearted brother, who has a more advanced stage of the disease in this dramatic comedy.

This film depicts Greg Louganis’s struggles through childhood, homosexuality, and contraction of the HIV virus on his way to becoming one of the world’s top Olympic divers.

Yesterday, who shares her name with the title of the movie, is diagnosed with HIV after falling ill and sets her sights on living long enough to see her daughter attend school.

This movie adaptation of the award-winning musical Rent depicts the struggle of Bohemians in New York City trying to cope with life, love, and AIDS.

3 Needles addresses the worldwide AIDS crisis through the eyes of three separate individuals, each affected by the disease in a different way.

In Girl, Positive, a popular high school girl's life is changed forever when she finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.

This screen adaption of Pedro Zamora’s life tells his story from childhood to becoming an AIDS activist and being the first HIV-positive homosexual on a reality show, with his appearance on MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco.”

Themba is an inspiring story of a young Xhosa boy who doesn't let AIDS prevent him from living his dream of becoming a soccer star.

We Were Here is a film for the documentary lover that deeply reflects on what was called the “Gay Plague” in the 1980s and provides insight into society’s need for medical care, social services, and community support.

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves is a Swedish miniseries featuring a steadfast Jehovah’s Witness who meets a young man on Christmas Eve and his life is never the same. The story is about the struggle of the homosexual community with AIDS, when many loved ones were not accepted in society or lost to the disease.

This adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows a group of characters in 1980s New York beyond a surface-level exploration of AIDS into a spiritual realm and is hailed as a modern classic.

In Dallas Buyers Club, a Texas electrician searches for alternative treatments for his newly diagnosed HIV while battling the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies.

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